Ashley Dupre, you may remember her as the high-class hooker that had sex with New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, is blogging.  Not just because she has a lot on her mind, but because she’s releasing a single.  No, “a single” isn’t a sex term — she’s a singer now.  

Anyway, Dupre is upset that she hasn’t received the same forgiving treatment that the public seems to have offered to the former gov.  Here’s her kind of lengthy blog entry and I strongly suggest you click here to hear her single, as well:

I read the front page of the NY Post this week and was happy to see that Mr. Spitzer is moving on with his life and considering getting back into politics.  Everyone makes mistakes.  Everyone deserves a second chance.  Me too, right?  Well, apparently not.  Why?  Because many people are liars and hypocrites.  Let me give you just a few examples of what I keep encountering, despite my best efforts to move on.

First, I’m often referred to as the “woman who brought down the Governor” – excuse me people, I didn’t call the tabloids, I didn’t blow the whistle and I didn’t save “the dress.”  I did nothing to shine a light on my indiscretions or to “out” anyone else. 

Second, I keep being accused of “cashing in” on the scandal – wrong again. People think I made money off music that was exploited when the scandal first broke, that I am doing reality television, and that I made millions posing nude for magazines.  The truth is none of those things happened.  This situation closed far more doors than it ever opened.  I didn’t see a dime for my songs, but other people certainly did.  I didn’t pose nude for a magazine, but other people made money off of photos of me that they sold to tabloids.  Even photos I posed for ages ago were sold to the highest bidder.  I never sold any photos of myself – but people who I trusted did.  And the “millions” for the nude pics?  I was offered that, repeatedly – and turned them down because I didn’t want to perpetuate the problem or feed into the stereotype. 

Third, speaking of perpetuating the problem and feeding into the stereotype, let me tell you about most book publishers – they are worse than the tabloids.  I won’t give them the “tell all” they are demanding and won’t glorify and sensationalize “how exciting the life of a high-priced NYC escort must be,” as one major publisher put it.  Sorry folks, my life wasn’t like a “Sex And The City” episode.  I’m not sure that exists anywhere but on television.  Oh, and I also love how some publishers who were interested in my story and had offers on the table suddenly pulled them because executives in the company had “personal and political reasons” about publishing the book.  What does that mean?  Did this hit too close to home for you because your husband cheated on you with an escort?  Or would your wife feel insecure if she heard you were working with me? I will write the book regardless and do it for the right reasons.  
   
Fourth – ladies, ladies, ladies – so many of you have been cool, supportive and loving.   But there are those of you out there who just love to judge.  Let me say this – most girls, to varying degrees of course, want to be pampered and have nice shoes, designer handbags and gorgeous clothes.  I know many women who target guys with money and use them to get these things.  They toy with them, flirt, go on dates, have sex and then drop hints about that new dress at the store down the street or being short on rent money – and the guys deliver it.  This is a dishonest relationship.  I see this all over New York City.  Some women aren’t as vindictive, but still dive into relationships with wealthy guys who they don’t love or even find attractive, but they stay in it because they have a nice home, a car and spending money – they would rather stay in an unfulfilling or loveless relationship than lose that security.  This, too, is a dishonest relationship. I see this type all over the suburbs of New Jersey with the housewives who are strung out on mood stabilizers or the couples who put all their attention on their children so they don’t have to deal with their own issues.  What about going to those sugar daddy websites?   Is that legal?  Should it be?  Is what I did any more dishonest?  Get real and get over yourself.

You’d be shocked at some of the messes I’ve gotten myself into….and, more importantly, how I got out of them.  I have so much more to say, and I will – but it’s time for Yoga class! Om Shanti!

And while all this is going on, this is what I am really passionate about.  My music.  Here is a rough mix of a song I am working on that tells a little bit of my story.  I hope you like it. :o)

So, Eliot Spitzer landed a job as a college professor and is considering a return to politics  Ashley Dupre is unemployed and hoping someone will buy her song.  Do you think we give men more leeway in these situations than the hookers they hire?

Because all sex scandal women come out with their own handbag line.  It’s like…a rule. 

Ashley Dupre, the hooker who serviced former NY governor Eliot Spitzer, was on 20/20 last night telling her side of the story.  I’m always suspicious of people who cry without the presence of tears.  She absolutely seemed fake and scripted to me.  I love the way Diane Sawyer looks at her.  She communicates “Wow, you are really fucking stupid” without even saying a word.  Anyway, Dupre says she’s intelligent but she also didn’t know she was screwing the governor of NY.  Because she was busy and didn’t read newspapers.  As a further sign of mental acumen, when the FBI showed up at her apartment and she turned on her TV to see Spitzer’s resignation, she began to “connect the dots.”

But to further support my belief that television is educational, I learned that being a prostitute is not the same thing as being an escort.  Because when you are an escort, you get dinner first.

Some of the best parts of the interview:

On how she got through the sex
“You had to be emotionally disconnected from your heart to your head.”

On the fact that she wasn’t a full time hooker
Sawyer reported that Ashley supposedly worked 3 months at a time and would then take six months off “to work at a real estate agency or waitressing, only to return to escort again.” She had a married boyfriend paying her bills for six months, which could explain it.

Whether she was afraid people would find out
“Absolutely, no one knew about that.”

On whether there were things she wouldn’t do
“Absolutely. I’m a very bright girl and I value my health and would do whatever necessary to make sure I was always protected, always…. If I did [feel I was in danger] I would leave.”

On how she got herself prepared to go out and be a prostitute
She had to stop the interview when Sawyer asked her this, but it didn’t seem sincere. Then when they came back she said she “hugged her dog” before she went out.

On if she had the “Pretty Woman” fantasy of getting saved by a client
This was where the real Ashley seemed to come out. She got animated and serious and it was all business for her.

“No. [scowls] I served a purpose. I knew what my purpose was. If I was surprised at their kindness, it’s fake kindness. [looks pissed off]. I mean, it’s time spent together, but it’s still not real. Kind of like having an abusive boyfriend and saying ‘oh but he loves me.’”

On the married boyfriend that gave her a six month reprieve from prostitution
She started crying here, and it looked fake and very put on. Apparently she was living with a guy she met outside her escort job who knew she was a prostitute. She gave up the job for him and it sounded like he was paying for the apartment and all her bills. She supposedly didn’t know he was married, but when he left her she had to go back to prostitution to pay the rent and her credit card debt.

She went back to being a prostitute in December, a month before the scandal
Here she read from her supposed diary from that time and she said it was hard to go back to prostitution after six months off. She said “I don’t know why it was so difficult for me. What if I got sick, what if I got AIDS, what if I got killed? I never planned on going back to work, but I had to.”

When asked why Spitzer was deemed a “difficult” client, as found out in the FBI investigation.
“Legally I’ve been advised not to discuss that.” She also wouldn’t discuss if she saw him more than once. “I don’t feel that I brought him down. [that was] a decision that he made.”

On her half-assed apology to Spitzer’s wife.
Sawyer asked her if she had something to say to Spitzer, but she said “I don’t think I would say it to him. I would say it to his wife. Sorry for your pain.”

Hooker of the year Ashley Alexandra Dupre has a byline on a story, the contents of which are her photo and the words “I’m sorry for your pain.”

Click here before it gets pulled.

Weird.

Anyone know what happened here?

So earlier in the week, Joe Francis made a big fucking deal of offering Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the hooker at the center of the Elliott Spitzer scandal, a million dollar pay-out to pose for Girls Gone Wild.

He rescinded the offer after GGW apparently found they already had footage of her in their archives.

Now, I think that story’s bullshit. Joe Francis may be one of the biggest assholes on the planet, but he’s a smart little fucker. And you’d better believe that sonofabitch checked the GGW archives for that girl before he offered her shit. This was all a publicity stunt on his part. He made a fool of Ashley, and now she’s out for blood.

The AP is reporting that her lawyer’s come forward saying she was only 17 when the footage was taken.

In an e-mail to one of Francis’ publicists — forwarded by Buchwald [Dupre's lawyer] to the AP — the attorney said he was “informed by Ashley that the video was in fact taken when she was underage (that is 17).”

Buchwald added in the e-mail that Francis was aware of Dupre’s age during the filming.

Francis said he bought Dupre a Greyhound bus ticket back home to North Carolina in 2003. Dupre returned home after she spent a week on the “Girls Gone Wild” bus in Miami and filmed seven full-length tapes, which included nudity, after signing legal papers, the company said.

“It was because she was underage that he sent her home on a Greyhound bus back to North Carolina. It would be outrageous at the very least to play the video of an underage female on the Internet,” Buchwald said in the e-mail.

GGW has postponed the release of their videos of Ashley until this is all resolved.

How many underage girls do you think this dude has filmed naked???

Put him back in jail!

It doesn’t seem to matter if you spell it with an “e” or an “i”: If your name is Kristen, you’re probably naked on the Internet today.

We’ve got the first (tame) photos of Ashley Alexandra Dupre (aka “Kristen”) in the Girls Gone Wild footage — from when she was 18.

The naughty ones are sure to hit the Internet in the next few hours.

I’ll be waiting.

Oh, I love shit like this.

Joe Francis was prepared to offer Ashley Dupre a cool million to appear in his GGW DVDs, but then he discovered that she’d already gotten naked for him — back when she was 18!!!

“It’ll save me a million bucks,” he said. “It’s kind of like finding a winning lottery ticket in the cushions of your couch.”

Francis said at that point, his offer was off the table: “We actually had been dealing with her rep,” he said. “Our (offer) was the real deal. We just never made the connection.”

Yeah, I call bullshit. Joe already knew he had the footage. The $1M offer was just a publicity ploy for said footage, which is now available on his website, which I refuse to link to here.

Oh, Joe, you’ve been out of jail less than a week and you’re already making me nauseous.